The 157th day of the year, the 158th in a leap year
Born on 6 June
Every 6 June birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Gemini, in every time zone.
- Star sign
- GeminiAir, mutable, ruled by Mercury.
- Birthstone
- Pearl, Moonstone, AlexandriteThe 1912 list gave Pearl and Moonstone.
- Birth flower
- Rose, HoneysuckleUsually taken today to mean love and bonds of affection.
- Most common weekdays
- Monday and Saturday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Your year
Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 6 June in any year.
Which weekday 6 June falls on
Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 6 June falls on every day of the week: Monday 16, Saturday 16, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 15, Friday 15, Thursday 15.
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How common a birthday 6 June is
In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,836 babies were born on 6 June in each year of the twenty, making it the joint 109th most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.
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Born on 6 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander Pushkin | 1799–1837 | Russian poet, playwright, and novelist |
| Diego Velázquez | 1599–1660 | Spanish painter |
| Thomas Mann | 1875–1955 | German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate |
| Sukarno | 1901–1970 | 1st President of Indonesia |
| Pierre Corneille | 1606–1684 | French tragedian |
| K. Ferdinand Braun | 1850–1918 | German physicist |
| Albert II of Belgium | 1934– | King of the Belgians from 1993 to 2013 |
| Robert Falcon Scott | 1868–1912 | Royal Navy officer and explorer |
| Björn Borg | 1956– | Swedish tennis player |
| Aram Khachaturian | 1903–1978 | Soviet Armenian composer |
| Isaiah Berlin | 1909–1997 | British social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas |
| Heinrich Rohrer | 1933–2013 | Swiss physicist |
| Alexandra Feodorovna | 1872–1918 | Empress consort of Russia |
| Igor Sikorsky | 1889–1972 | American aviation pioneer from Russian Empire; born 6 June in the Gregorian calendar, 25 May in the Julian |
| Richard Smalley | 1943–2005 | American chemist |
| Paul Giamatti | 1967– | American actor |
| Pete Hegseth | 1980– | United States Secretary of Defense |
| Joseph I of Portugal | 1714–1777 | King of Portugal from 1750 to 1777 |
Died on 6 June
| Name | Years | Known for |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Jung | 1875–1961 | Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist |
| Gerhart Hauptmann | 1862–1946 | German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 |
| Jeremy Bentham | 1748–1832 | British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer |
| Robert F. Kennedy | 1925–1968 | American politician and lawyer |
| Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour | 1810–1861 | first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy from March to June in 1861 |
| Anne Bancroft | 1931–2005 | American actress |
| John A. Macdonald | 1815–1891 | 1st prime minister of Canada from 1867 to 1873 and 1878 to 1891 |
| Yuan Shikai | 1859–1916 | Chinese military and government official |
| J. Paul Getty | 1892–1976 | American industrialist and art collector |
| Viktor Korchnoi | 1931–2016 | Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster |
| Jerome Karle | 1918–2013 | American physical chemist |
| Jean Dausset | 1916–2009 | French immunologist |
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